This drawing apparently depicts a war scene in which a soldier bends over a dragoon who has fallen from his horse. To the right, another soldier lies motionless on the ground next to two muskets.
The work was first considered to be Italian, then Dutch, but has yet to be convincingly assigned. Since it was one of the drawings in Echeverría's collection, most of which were Spanish, it has been included here, although it is impossible to establish that the work was produced in Spain.

Jens Hoffmann-Samland

Details about this work

• Label

  Beschriftung fremd: Auf dem Verso nummeriert: "153" (Bleistift, unterstrichen)

• Provenance

  Wahrscheinlich Julian Benjamin Williams (1831-1856 Vizekonsul, dann bis 1866 Konsul in Sevilla); Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889), Sevilla; auf dessen Nachlaßauktion bei Sotheby's London am 11.11.1889 erworben vom Londoner Kunsthändler Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899); 1891 von diesem von der Kunsthalle mit einem Konvolut mehrerer Blätter erworben.
  [José Atanasio Echeverría]; Julian Benjamin Williams, Seville (d. 1866); John Wetherell (?) (d. 1865); Horatio/Nathan Wetherell (?) (until 1874); Frederick William Cosens, London (from 1874 to 1890); Sotheby's, London, auction of the property of Frederick William Cosens (from November 11 to 21, 1890); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London (from November 1890 to July 1891); acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle (July 14, 1891).

• Bibliography

  The Spanish Gesture. Drawings from Murillo to Goya in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Jens Hoffmann-Samland, with contributions by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Gabriele Finaldi, José Manuel Matilla u. a., 2014, S. 268, Abb., Abb.-Nr. , Kat.-Nr. 203